COTTAGE GROVE – When South Lane voters go to the polls on May 18, they can cast ballots for the members of the South Lane County Fire & Rescue board of directors. It will be only an exercise; the results already are known.  The five-person board has four incumbents running[Read More…]

EMMA ROUTLEY/CHRONICLE PHOTO Point S Tire & Auto Service owner Rory Tyler is among several business owners who said these are the most difficult hiring conditions they can remember. Local business owners who have suffered and – somehow – survived this far through the pandemic are eager to ramp up[Read More…]

EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE PublicHouse in Springfield utilizes “Porter” software, with instructions on each table. As the pandemic leaves restaurant owners feeling shaken, a new web technology may be paving the way for a new kind of operation. In the future, waiting for a server to take a food order may[Read More…]

So far April’s showers have been sharing time with some spring sunshine, and it is so welcome. We have been spending time outside, trying to get a handle on the new green grass in our lawn and the prolific weeds that are growing in the flower beds. Both are competing[Read More…]

DANA MERRYDAY/PHOTO Crew members put in long days and hard work. They can walk for up to five miles in a single day and carry 30-pound packs with gear and tools. Today we find ourselves in a remarkably similar situation as our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., as they struggled in[Read More…]

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were among the original breakthrough comedy stars who still enjoy devoted fans today. Before the motion picture, and later, television, there was vaudeville. Out of vaudeville and the music theatre and bars of Europe, came comedy teams and single comedians. In 1903, the first successful[Read More…]

EMMA ROUTLEY/CHRONICLE PHOTO “Santa” Patrick Dearth, left, and “Witch” Vickie Weathers helped welcome guests to the grange’s all-season holiday event. Santa Claus paid the Creswell Grange an extra visit this year after the pandemic’s mass cancellations left the locals lacking holiday cheer — and brought all the other holidays along[Read More…]

A Springfield man died Saturday, April 10, in a single-car accident a little after 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 10. David Anthony Chavez, the driver, was 52. Springfield Police and Eugene Springfield Fire responded to the 3600 block of Franklin Blvd. on Saturday after a report of a single-car crash[Read More…]

EMMA ROUTLEY/CHRONICLE PHOTO Cottage Grove Library volunteers Natasha Chitow (left) and Becky Arnoux. COTTAGE GROVE – The Cottage Grove Public Library has taken its books to the public – via the great outdoors.   Every Tuesday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., the library sets up shop in Bohemia Park and is[Read More…]

PHOTO PROVIDED EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 24, 2021 – Porter is powering up a new digital era of food service at hotels across America, with seven in the Eugene-Springfield area among the first to launch. The Maverick, Candlewood Suites, Comfort Suites, Tru by Hilton, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Courtyard Eugene-Springfield and[Read More…]